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Sit-down restaurants in Carbon County, UT
How Carbon County, UT compares with other counties and the U.S. for sit-down restaurants: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 47 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,298 of 2,405 scored counties
#18 of 21 scored counties in Utah
- Listings
- 33
- 8 chain locations (24%)
- Official establishments
- 14
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $26.2M
- On food away from home · $3,225 a household
- Spending per listing
- $794K
- 20% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 40.6
- 34% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 20,680
- +1.0% since 2020
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What this means
At $3,225 per household (21% below the U.S. average), households in Carbon County spend about $26.2M a year on food away from home. That is about $794K of household spending for each restaurant on map listings, 20% above the U.S. figure of $664K. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only sit-down restaurants.
Carbon County has 33 sit-down restaurants on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 8 are chain locations, or 24%, against 29% across the U.S. That comes to 40.6 for every 10,000 households, 34% below the U.S. rate of 61.3.
In 2023, official counts showed 14 businesses with payroll in Carbon County classed as full-service restaurants. That is one for every 580 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 3 SBA-backed loans worth $2M have gone to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Carbon County.
Population estimates show Carbon County grew 1.0% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For sit-down restaurants, Carbon County has a Groundwork market score of 47 (lower middle): #1,298 of 2,405 scored counties and #18 of 21 scored counties in Utah.
How Carbon County compares
The same measures for Utah and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the sit-down restaurants counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Carbon County | Utah | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 40.6 | 57.4 | 61.3 |
| Spending per listing | $794K | $756K | $664K |
| Households per official establishment | 580 | 625 | 500 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +6.9% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.0% | +7.8% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,225 | $4,339 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $58,377 | $95,166 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 47 | 83 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 11 → 14
- Employees, 2023
- 247
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 338 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 40The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 3
- Amount
- $2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as full-service restaurants in Carbon County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Carbon County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 20,680+1.0% since 2020
- Households
- 8,123
- Median age
- 39.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,479 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 14
- Median household income
- $58,377+14.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $75,548
- Median home value
- $228,500
- Jobs located here
- 7,904
- Daytime population
- 17,852Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Utah
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Morgan County, UT | 96 | 9 | 23.8 | $2.2M | +8.1% | #2 of 2,405 |
| 2Tooele County, UT | 91 | 95 | 39.7 | $1.1M | +19.2% | #19 of 2,405 |
| 3Box Elder County, UT | 89 | 64 | 32.7 | $1.2M | +12.7% | #30 of 2,405 |
| 4Davis County, UT | 88 | 483 | 41.7 | $1.1M | +4.8% | #43 of 2,405 |
| 5Cache County, UT | 84 | 186 | 41.9 | $943K | +8.5% | #80 of 2,405 |
| 6Utah County, UT | 82 | 1,101 | 54.2 | $828K | +14.5% | #99 of 2,405 |
| 7Emery County, UT | 78 | 13 | 37.6 | $971K | +3.4% | #171 of 2,405 |
| 8Wasatch County, UT | 77 | 76 | 59.0 | $846K | +9.9% | #203 of 2,405 |
| 9Weber County, UT | 76 | 471 | 50.0 | $827K | +5.8% | #228 of 2,405 |
| 10Sanpete County, UT | 75 | 40 | 45.0 | $792K | +10.3% | #254 of 2,405 |
| 18Carbon County, UT | 47 | 33 | 40.6 | $794K | +1.0% | #1,298 of 2,405 |
Other business types in Carbon County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
- Restaurants and cafes37
- Sit-down restaurants47
- Fast food and sandwich shops26
- Pizza33
- Coffee shops and cafes47
- Bakeries and dessert shops44
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Questions
How many sit-down restaurants are in Carbon County, UT?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 33 sit-down restaurants in Carbon County. 8 of them (24%) are chain locations. The listings count restaurants of every cuisine, pizza included. Official counts show 14 businesses with payroll classed as full-service restaurants in 2023.
How much do households in Carbon County, UT spend on food away from home?
About $26.2M a year, or $3,225 per household. That is 21% below the U.S. average (an index of 79, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 33 sit-down restaurants on map listings, it comes to $794K per restaurant. That spending covers all food away from home, which sit-down restaurants share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,123 households in Carbon County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Carbon County, UT compare with the U.S. for sit-down restaurants?
Carbon County has 40.6 sit-down restaurants per 10,000 households, 34% below the U.S. rate of 61.3. Spending per restaurant is $794K, 20% above the U.S. figure of $664K. At the U.S. ratio of sit-down restaurants to household spending, Carbon County would have about 40, against 33 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 580 households, against one for every 500 across the U.S.
How fast is Carbon County, UT growing?
Population estimates put Carbon County at 20,680 people in 2025, up 1.0% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 8,123 households. Median household income in Carbon County is $58,377, 28% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 14.1%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Carbon County scores 47 for sit-down restaurants (lower middle), #1,298 of 2,405 scored counties.
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